George Kadianakis desnacked@riseup.net writes:
I have skimmed over this proposal, and it all sounds plausible. This:
In the beginning, name plugins should be third-party applications that can be installed by interested users manually or through package managers. Users will also have to add the appropriate OnionNamePlugin line to their torrc. This will be a testing phase, and also a community-growing phase.
...made me think: couldn't the whole proposal be implemented via a controller (with MAPADDRESS)?
That is, the controller registers to re-map streams, and for every request to e.g. "^*.corn$" it speaks the proposed lookup protocol to the registered plugins. That is, the whole approach could be more-quickly prototyped in e.g. Python, and if it works well could them be implemented in C in Tor proper (but the actual name-looking-up plugins would all still work).
In any case, I like it :)